There were three men. One was holding a gun, one at gun point, and one holding a lantern.
"Please, don't shot me, I didn't mean to," the guy with the gun in his back.
"Well, it's too damn late for apologizing!" gun holding guy said. "Derek, move the light closer."
"I don't like this," the guy with the lantern said getting closer. I looked at Tucker and put my index finger to my lips. I motioned for him to follow me out the water and behind a wrecked car. We slowly rose out the water and moved when the three men would talk.
"Kurt, if you shoot him, I will be an accomplice, I can't go to jail, I have a family," Derek said on the verge of tears.
"Derek, stop him," the man at gun point pleaded. "Don't let him do this."
"Shut up Tony," Derek snapped. "I don't give a shit about you, just as long as I get out of here before you're splattered against a tree." I knew what Tony should do. The barrel of the shotgun has pushed hard against his back. All he had to do was spin and knock the gun away. I had seen it done on TV, and if it was on TV, it must be true. We were now behind the car.
"What should we do?" Tucker asked. "We can't just sit here and let them shoot him."
"Come on Kurt, what's shooting this guy gonna do. Your daughter will still be pregnant, and then the baby's dad will dead." A spider crawled out the car onto Tucker's hand. I believe it was a banana spider, but I am not entirely sure.
"Son of a bitch! Get it off! Get it off!" Tucker waved his arms in the air and ran out from behind the car. Derek flung the lantern into our direction and it slipped from his sweaty hands against the ground and halfway in the water. The car had leaked oil into the water and it caught on fire. Tuck ran out the swamp onto the road as a gunshot echoed threw the forest. I looked back to see Tony holding the gun and Kurt falling to his knees. He must have taken advantage of the situation and seized the gun.
Realizing that we were both flammable, we hauled ass down the road, thinking that we had seen it all, but we hadn't.